On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.0OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

6 mph ENE · high slack

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 6.4channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.7channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 5.7mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

7.2OF 10

Day

medium

Tarpon should be the day — Jupiter Inlet and the first Loxahatchee points — snook, then a beach tarpon.

12 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Jupiter Inlet · 7.1pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Juno Beach Pier · 7.1structure piling on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 6.7mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Jupiter brief